Cleander wrote:I'm not surprised that Narniaweb attracts homeschoolers; has there ever been a poll to see what percentage of Narniawebbers are or were homeschooled/homeschooling? (I'm guessing like at least 50%)!
After some observation, I may have to amend my above statement. While that's likely true from back in the old days of this site, the vast majority now I think have at least been homeschooled for some of the time.
Adeona wrote:Other books my family really liked and learned from were the Christian Heritage series (by Nancy Rue), which is really several different series of chapter books for (I think?) middle-school-age readers.
I'll have to keep those in mind. They sound interesting.
This was an interesting week.
I lost my voice thanks to a virus. All of my homeschooling mom friends told me to take a few days off (whole point of homeschool right? flexible schedule?) but I powered through as I knew exactly where I wanted to end the curriculum before Thanksgiving and then again before Christmas and I just didn't have a lot of flexibility. I found it funny anyways.
Kansas requires 186 days of school, my curriculum was hitting around 170 days, and after a quick google, it looked like Unit Studies were the way to go. I thought it would be fun to do a unit study on Christmas, so that's what I've been working on creating. I found a freebie series on the symbols of Christmas and I'm using that as my base and building it from there (it's still pretty simple).
One of the books I'm reading to my kiddos is (wait for it)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!!! Yes.... finally, the NarniaWeb admin is FINALLY introducing her kids to Narnia.
The other I finally picked out is
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever which I read for the first time this weekend and just loved! I ran into a problem though because I was crying through most of the last chapter and I can't read while crying.
So... thanks to being sick, my fellow mom friends pointed out the wonders of YouTube audiobooks, and I discovered that Pageant has been read online, so i can just play it for the kids and not have to worry about blubbering through the end of the book.